An MIT team has devised a lithium metal anode that could improve the longevity and energy density of future batteries.New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as one of the battery’s two electrodes, the anode. The new electrode concept comes from the labor...

With investments showing in from all directions for the implementation of technology in businesses, now is the right time for your business to leverage technology’s complete potential.Many organizations are successful because of their quick adoption of trending technologies. If you do not invest in the latest technologies for your business, you may end up losing your competitive edge. The Info...

US patent application 20200037964 describes an intelligent warning system in a communication service that analyzes a user's biometric signals and image data of the user's in a communication session to determine a distress level. If the distress level exceeds a threshold level, then a notification is sent to a remote user to seek assistance. The figure depicts change in image data of the user th...

​Complex, multistakeholder challenges don’t often present a single obvious solution. Cocreation—where the stakeholders share responsibility for the problem—can be an effective way to unlock solutions.THE dire consequences of accelerating climate change and global warming are well known. According to a report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, dwindling resour...

Government leaning on more tech devices to combat coronavirus. At least seven Chinese provinces now use medical bots. The deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has pushed the Chinese medical community into overdrive, has also prompted the country’s hospitals to more quickly adopt robots as medical assistants.Telepresence bots that allow remote video communication, patient health monitoring and sa...

The rise of digitally native, direct-to-consumer (D2C) businesses is one of the most transformative movements shaping the ecommerce landscape. In the coming years, many consumers intend to make a significant percentage of purchases with D2C brands, but there may be a ceiling.An October 2019 Diffusion study conducted by YouGov asked US internet users how much they expect to purchase from D2C com...

As Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs cluster around the worldview that artificial intelligence is poised to change how we work, investors are deciding which use cases make the most sense to pump money into right now. One focus has been the relentless communication between companies and customers that takes place at call centers.Call center tech has spawned dozens if not hundreds of AI startups, m...

Today’s graphic from Paul Schmelzing, visiting scholar at the Bank of England (BOE), shows how global real interest rates have experienced an average annual decline of -0.0196% (-1.96 basis points) throughout the past eight centuries.Currently, many sovereign rates sit in negative territory, and there is an unprecedented $10 trillion in negative-yielding debt. This new interest rate climate ha...

The Cthru mask has a thermal vision camera on the outside and a small HUD over the right eyeQwake Technologies.Firefighting teams tend to carry hand-held devices to help them see in harsh, smoky conditions, but an American company has built edge-detecting thermal vision into a single eye heads-up display inside the breathing mask for hands-free use.Qwake's C-Thru mask places a small, transparen...